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The civil rape trial brought forth by controversial former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who accused President Trump of raping her in the 90s, in underway.
On Thursday, President Trump’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, grilled the eccentric E. Jean Carroll over er allegation that Trump raped her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman’s decades ago. Unfortunately for Ms. Carroll, the cross-examination didn’t go in her favor.
Tacopina suggested earlier in the day that Carroll had political motives for filing her suit. He showed the jury an email that contained a draft excerpt from the book Carroll wrote. One chapter refers to her alleged rape by Trump.
“He’s poisoning my water, he’s polluting my air, he’s cooking my planet … and as he stacks the courts, my rights over my body are being taken away state by state. I’m afraid my right to free speech will go next. So now I will tell you what happened,” the message said.
Carroll replied that the message contained a draft that was never published.
Tacopina then questioned why Carroll could not pinpoint a date the alleged rape occurred.
“I wish to heaven we could give you a date,” Carroll said.
Tacopina then suggested that Ms. Carroll may have falsely accused Trump of rape as a publicity stunt to boost book sales. He then artfully got her to admit that the book flopped anyway.
“You thought including the story about Donald Trump while he was still president would help sell the book?” he asked.
“I thought so but I was wrong,” Carroll said. She had previously testified her book did not sell well.
Trump’s lawyer relentlessly questioned Ms. Carroll as to why she had not spoken to anyone about the alleged rape in the past two decades.
Tacopina then asked, “In two decades, you don’t call the police, correct?” Carroll replied, “Correct.”
“In two decades you never revealed this story in your hundreds of your advice columns, correct?” Tacopina said.
“Correct,” Carroll said.
“Only when you were trying to get a publisher and sell your book?” Tacopina asked, to which Carroll replied her story came out after The New York Times published its landmark story about Harvey Weinstein.
During questioning, Ms. Carroll said the #MeToo movement and the conviction of Harvey Weinstein gave her the “courage” to finally speak up about the alleged “Trump rape.”
She also causally mentioned that Les Moonves, the former CEO of CBS, had raped her in an elevator. However, she wasn’t upset about that rape because he didn’t defame her afterwards.
“So it was Harvey Weinstein and all the women against him that caused you to leap into action?” Tacopina asked.
Carroll answered, “It caused me to realize that staying silent does not work. We have a chance of limiting the harm that happens.”
Carroll also told the jury she was assaulted by then-CBS chairman Les Moonves after an interview. She said she and Moonves entered an elevator and then “he pushed me up against the wall.”
She did not sue Moonves, Carroll said, because “he did not defame me. He did not call me a liar.”
Carroll, however, sued Trump in November 2019 “because he called me a liar. Because he said I accused other men of rape. He said I was an operative or in a conspiracy with the Democratic Party … and he said I was too ugly to rape. So I sued him.”
In addition to her allegation that Les Moonves raped her, E. Jean Carroll has also stated that she was raped by a dentist.
She also referred to her former husband, news anchor John Johnson, as an “ape.”
Carroll claims she was also raped by a dentist and Les Moonves but the judge might not let that in? She also called her husband an ape but Judge doesn’t want that mentioned because it’s a “mixed race jury in New York” WTF? pic.twitter.com/lMji0Z2khJ
— Rosie Memos (@almostjingo) April 26, 2023
Below is a photo of Ms. Carroll’s second husband John Johnson.
When questioned about whether she had ever watched Donald Trump’s show, “The Apprentice,” E. Jean Carroll had this bizarre response:
“I love the premise of ambitious young businesspeople competing for a job. I thought that was really quite witty and it was different. It was so much better than, you know, the dating contests and the beauty contests and those — this was a real contest where you could watch it and learn a thing or two. It was very — it was beautifully produced.”
You may also remember that Ms. Carroll appeared on CNN with Anderson Cooper, where she referred to rape as being “sexy.”
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